Annual Strategy

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Annual Strategy

This page is for collecting information leading to a year-ahead "what do we want to accomplish for the space" plan. It also documents what has been decided and accomplished ... so far.

Calendar Year 2012

A small group met on 9 Sept 2011 to talk about what we want to do in 2012 ... or sooner. The first thing we did was brainstorm the issues that we need to address. There were three key groups of issues:

(note that these are just the raw ideas - more analysis follows)

Issues

Group A: (12 priority points)

Get equipment working

Group B: (8 priority points)

Retain people during cold months

Drama - not getting along

Getting more artists, minorities, kids, and women.

Group C: (10 priority points)

People working on projects

More group projects and collaboration

Wheel truing stand

Bike shop revamp

Make bread

Root causes

For each of these groups, we tried to understand the root causes. Here are the thoughts:

Group A: Get Equipment Working

Money

Time

Ownership confusion

Lack of updates / communication

Don't want / care about it

Group B: People

Classes

Better lighting

Cleaning / housekeeping

Lack of activities

Weather - hard to get here

Dark location (safety?)

Group C: Projects

Tool chains not complete

Lack of inspiration / communication

Intimidated by inexperience and people

Lack of clean work areas

Lack of follow-through on rules

Discouraging surroundings

Proposed Solutions

We picked four root causes to try to develop some solutions and make assignments. In the following, it's important to note that this is the raw list of ideas mentioned. We only agreed on implementing the ones with names attached.

Tool chains incomplete

Have zone wardens tell us

Promote use of dream list (Matt)

Develop tools chains and documents missing elements (Roger)

Moratorium on new acquisitions until existing stuff is functional or out